Star Wars work in progress You Became to Me

[polgarawolf]

Seventeenth part of a WiP
Title: You Became to Me (as suggested by avari_maethor)
*Pairing: Mainly Anakin/Obi-Wan with some mention of Padmé
Rating: Uhm, right now pretty PG-13ish but inevitably it'll be at least an R (?)
Disclaimer: I do not own the lovely boys from Star Wars, more's the pity! What I do have is an extremely contrary muse that refuses to shut

Comments

[grey_bard]

I really love this fic, I love this fic thiiiiiiis much, but a Force-induced makeover? I'm a little hazy the reason for that narrative choice.

[polgarawolf]

This is going to get discussed more later, after what I'm working on now. Not just what happens with Obi-Wan and Anakin, but what has happened with Qui-Gon and Dooku and why. It might sound weird, at first, the way Obi-Wan and Anakin change here, but part of it's just because so much of the power of the Force comes to reside in them that it shines through them, all the time, and part of it has to do with the way that the Force can interact with matter. The Force is an energy field, one that changes and grows and can intereact with physical beings like a living creature can, to a certain point. It can remove itself from or bind itself closer to specific beings and places or objects, for one thing. I haven't made the Force precisely sentient, but it's closer to behaving like a sentient being than some might expect, for an energy field. So after the Force embraces Anakin and Obi-Wan and then lets them go again, it remakes their bodies in the images that they hold of each other and of themselves. It might help to remember that energy and

[grey_bard]

I would like to say that this entire Force-meld sequence was absolutely incredible, from the moment of Obi-Wan's lone realization, through Anakin's violent self-loathing, through their final acceptance and embrace of the force. The entire thing, all these many parts, had a transcendant and mythical beauty to it. It was absolutely gorgeous.

[polgarawolf]

Thank you. It was difficult to write -- very painful for all involved. Even though Anakin faces what he's done and how close he's come to falling, I don't think he's really dealt with or entirely come to grips to what's happened to Padme. In fact, I'm not sure either Anakin or Obi-Wan have come entirely to grips with the full tragedy of the war and the losses of the war. Not yet. No one's really touched on the fact that Sidious planned the entire war, including the attack on Coruscant, very deeply yet. Or the fact that Padme was pregnant when she died. I think this is going to be something that comes up again in a later part. I just haven't quite gotten to it, yet. Things have been happening too quickly.

[avari_maethor]

The oddest question came to me while reading this chapter... I don't even know why because she wasn't even in this chapter.

What if Palpatine hadn't been the Sith Lord but Padme was... odd I know but just think about it... Anakin married to her and never knew. Boy oh boy would he curse himself.

Awesome chapter. Some of my fave points covered in it.

[polgarawolf]

People have written evil!Padme stories, but in the main I haven't been able to take them very seriously. I have read one scary little fic (though I can't remember where or who wrote it) where Padme is sort of a secret unofficial apprentice of Sidious' and marries Anakin on orders from Sidious, but since she wasn't really very Force-sensitive at all, she couldn't understand why or how Sidious was setting her up for death with the order to marry Anakin like that. I don't think I've ever seen anyone try to seriously cast her as a Force-sensitive strong enough to have been able to be a Sith. It would be interesting, if someone could actually pull it off, but I think that a lot would have to change for it to be feasible.